Borders will be installing televisions in its stores. A new strategy at Borders will reinforce the message that its stores are not just about books: the company has been installing 37-inch flat-screen televisions to show original programming, advertisements, news and weather. Borders stores haven’t been “just about books” since…pretty much forever. I’m wondering how they’ll [...]
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Awarded by Silvia to Elizabeth
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My philanthropic friend Rachel offers up a challenging and eleemosynary website for our delectation: FreeRice. It’s a vocabulary game with a bonus — for every word you get right, 10 grains of rice are donated to end world hunger. Now, ten grains is not a lot of Oryza sativa, so let’s augment our vocabulary in [...]
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One of Peter Cook’s finest moments. A transcript. The true story.
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I voted at the Walker precinct poll this morning around 8:30. The lines were short, the workers were courteous, and I think I’m finally getting the hang of the spinnie-wheel picker thingie.
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The American Society of Magazine Editors has picked the Best Cover winners for 2007. Most of the finalists leave me cold (and that one with Stephen Colbert and the “baby” is just plain creepy). I would have picked either gruff and lovable Dick Cheney, or just plain lovable George Clooney, if I were pickin’. HT: [...]
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Are you guilty, as I often am, of taking the public library for granted? Here’s a post from a homeschooling mother whose town was without library services for six months. Becky of Life Without School writes: Some of you may have read my post a few months ago about the controversy surrounding the closure. After [...]
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Sorry about the awful photo; it was the best that I could do. “Freddy Krueger Mellencamp” at Orbit last night was a big hit with this homesick Hoosier. Part Farm Aid, part Nightmare on Elm Street, the show was true to its billing, right down to the cigarettes rolled up in a t-shirt sleeve. At [...]
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